ON CONTROL OVER THE EXPENDITURE OF FUNDS OF THE SUPREME COUNCIL OF THE NATIONAL ECONOMY

[5] 2
( Pravdin 3
) Alekseev 4
from the V.S.N.Kh.
from the Department of Demobilization
In the matter of the C.P.C.

1 The draft was proposed by Lenin at a session of the C.P.C. on 16 February
1918 in connection with discussion of the question "On the allocation of one hundred thousand rubles
for a northern expedition of the C.P.C. for the protection of the property of the R.S.F.S.R., located
in Arkhangelsk province" (report by V. D. Bonch-Bruevich). Lenin's resolution
was adopted with the following addition in Lenin's formulation:
"Appoint the commission composed of comrades Pravdin, Alekseev, from the department of
demobilization, from the V.S.N.Kh. Entrust the convening of this commission to comrade Alekseev.
Oblige this commission to present a report to the C.P.C. on Monday 18 February (in the protocol there is a slip: "January." Ed.) 1918."

The figure, apparently, denotes the number of persons proposed for the
commission. It was crossed out by Lenin after the decision on the composition of the
commission of 4 persons (see Minutes of C.P.C., No. 63, p. 3).

3 A. G. Pravdin was a member of the collegium of the People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs.
4 Alekseev — a specialist in water transport, one of the responsible workers
of the V.S.N.Kh.

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ON CONTROL OVER THE EXPENDITURE OF FUNDS OF THE V.S.N.Kh.

DRAFT DECREE OF THE C.P.C.*

[26 March 1918]

The C.P.C. instructs representatives—from Control, 1—from the [C]ommissariat of Fin[ance]—to constitute a [C]ommission with the aim of establishing tomorrow a accounting-control department at the Department of Fuel of the V.S.N.Kh., as well as other accounting-control departments of the V.S.N.Kh.

The convening of the [C]ommission is entrusted to comrade [Pelevin] Bogolepov.

The same [C]ommission is entrusted, first, with specially reviewing the question of forms of reporting; second, with demanding precise written documents bearing the signatures of all interested parties, certifying the participation of these persons in the allocation of money and in the conduct of economic operations of various departments of the V.S.N.Kh.

Moreover, [it is charged with] demanding from these leading persons that they present in the near future the corresponding